The Dickinson press., 1887-04-23

day of last week with Il slim attend
ance. The meeting adjourned with
out %transactiny much business of i'm
%portance. Owing to the heavy losses
during the past winter it was not
thought worth while to appoint gem
eral round up for the spring but one
will take place later in the season.
On Friday evening last VIM. Cam
non, the postmaster at Fort Lincoln,
disappeared and has not since been
found, AS his watch, collar and neck.
tie and other wearing apparel were
left in his Office. and as everything
about the premises shows no evidence
of a premeditatcd departure, the Off
GERS of the post have come to the con-
clusion that he has committed suicide
or hecn murdered.
The citizens of Bismarck met in
mass convention Tuesday and ac-
cepted the proposition of the Aber-
deem, Bismarck & Northwestern rail
road, which will insure the construc-
ton of the road to that city before
November LIST. The citizens will do
nate forty acres of land for shops and
the right of way through the city.
The case of Frank j. Mead, of
Mandan charged with the murder of
Frank F%arnsworth. also of Mandan.
was called at st. Paul. last Monday
and up to Thursday night but eight
jurors had been accepted. Mr.. Mead
is defended by w. w. Erwin and Gov.
G. X. Davis. ID. NJ. Mum and .Attcr-
ney Eagam will conduct the proscru-
ton.
The Bismarck Tribune says that
the Rev. II. Il. Schaffner, formerly of
this place, who was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment in the penitcn-
tiary for assault with a deadly wea-
pom, conducts religious services there
every Sunday and is meeting with
great ucccss in converting the hard
cned sinners and showing them the
error of their ways. His success APP
pears TO he greater there than it ever
WAS here, where his style was not APP
preciated.
+. Il. Dickinson. of New York. was
in town ouer Notwithstanding Mon
day morning by the way of Burling-
ton, VT, to visit his father, whose
health is gradually but Enthusiastically
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The father referred to in tho above
is Senator w. S. Dickinson after
whom the town vas named and the
fact that he is improving in health
will he received as good news by all
who had the pleasure of meeting him
on his visits here previous to his pro-
longed illness.
The Northern Pacific company has
distributed at this point 936 bushels
of wheat and 276S bushels of oats for
seed to those farmers who were un;l-
bic, without considerable sacrifice, tn
obtain it in other ways. The drouth
of last summer, which was not con-
fined to Dakota hut was wide spread
throughout the east and west, caused
no loss of faith in this section of the
country among II clear headed set,
tiers and this generous action on the
part of the company is appreciated
and will he long remembered by tho
people who have been benefited
Thereby.
Friday of last week ut about noon,
George Prcntiss, who vas confined il
the Jail on the charge of b%urglarizinl
j. F. Vinton & Co.'S store, succeeded
in making his escape. 1t appears tlla'
the doors had been left unlocked, thu
door Of the cage being bolted on tht
outside. Prentiss managed to pur
his hand through the latt ice work o:
the cage showed the bolt back. tllcout
er door being unlocked he regainrd hi.
liberty and made such good use of i
that up to the present time he lla:
not been retakcn, although Sheriff
Sebastian has made every effort I,
get trace of him and return him Il
his old quarters in the Jail.
Tell me not in mournful numbers
that the town is full of gloom, for thu
mans u crank who slumbcrs i'm tllcs,
bustling days of boom. Life is real
life is earnest, and the grave is not it
goal. every dollar that thou turlest
helps to make the old town roll. Blu
enjoyment and not SorrOw. is our dies
tined end of way; if you haveno mon
ey, borrow-buy y corner lot each day
Lives of great mel all remind us. w
can win immortal fame, let us lcav
the chumps behind us, and we'll ge
there just the same. In this world
broad field Of battle, in the bivouac o
life, let us make the dry bones rattle
buy Il corner for Your wife! Let II
then he up and doing, with a; hear
for any fate, still achieving, still pm
suing, booming early, looming late
Elk.
Capt. II. n. Bruce arrived from
Vermont City, Edmnnds count
Thursday evening. He will procee
!, south at once and have a number q
townships surveyed in the vicinity q
: the Cannon Ball river and Rain
Buttes to be ready for the occupanc
of about two hundred families, men
bers of the New England Colony As
, ISOLATION, who will arrive in the nea
L future. j. G. Saunders, our CONNIE
f tent county surveyor has hann n,